Pulpit

In Tuscany, where one frequently encounters a learned and refined sculpture, the country parish churches, especially in the 12th century, offer instead curious examples of barbarizing formulas. Keeping alive a proto-Romanesque repertoire of Como origin, mixing it with oriental elements, and combining the elegance of the circular-based basin with the brutal harshness of the anthropo-zoomorphic figures, the rustic master of Gropina reveals an undoubted talent.